Aerospace vehicles are designed to be durable and damage tolerant. Durability is largely an economic life-cycle design consideration whereas damage tolerance directly addresses the structural airworthiness (safety) of the vehicle. However, both durability and damage tolerance design methodologies must address the deleterious effects of changes in material properties and the initiation and growth of microstructural damage that may occur during the service lifetime of the vehicle. Durability and damage tolerance design and certification requirements are addressed for commercial transport aircraft and NASA manned spacecraft systems. The state-of-the-art in advanced design and analysis methods is illustrated by discussing the results of several recently completed NASA technology development programs. These programs include the NASA Advanced Subsonic Technology Program demonstrating technologies for large transport aircraft and the X-33 hypersonic test vehicle demonstrating technologies for a single-stage-to-orbit space launch vehicle.
Advanced Durability and Damage Tolerance Design and Analysis Methods for Composite Structures. Lessons Learned From NASA Technology Development Programs
2003
36 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Composite Materials , Engineering Materials , Nondestructive Testing , Space Technology , Composite materials , Aerospace vehicles , Aircraft reliability , Damage , Design analysis , Life (Durability) , Certification , Commercial aircraft , Economics , Hypersonic vehicles , Durability , Damage tolerance , Fatigue , Fracture , Microstructure , X-33 reuseable launch vehicle
Advanced Durability and Damage Tolerance Design and Analysis Methods for Composite Structure
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004
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